A bus is engulfed on a flooded highway in Kuwait City following torrential rain.
Authorities in a number of Gulf nations renewed climate warnings on Sunday as a number of days of heavy rains batter the normally arid area.
Gulf nations normally expertise gentle winters, excluding uncommon and transient episodes of flooding rains between November and January.
Such climate is very disruptive within the area, the place authorities typically don’t set up heavy drainage techniques as a result of rarity of such precipitation.
Torrential rainfall has hit the United Arab Emirates, together with Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with official WAM information company saying the dangerous climate was anticipated to final till Thursday.
The rain has been exacerbated by cloud seeding, which authorities use to extend normally low and uncommon rainfall, the nationwide centre of meteorology informed AFP.
In the UAE emirate of Sharjah, pedestrians and autos had been caught up in brown-coloured water. Authorities haven’t reported any casualties.
Heavy rain has been falling within the huge desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, impacting pilgrims within the holy metropolis of Mecca.
The Saudi civil defence warned that reasonable to heavy rain was anticipated to proceed in a number of areas.
Oman on Saturday had introduced “stormy rains of various depth” in a number of areas of the nation, and state broadcaster Oman TV confirmed pictures of moist roads and rising waters.
Cars are seen in floodwaters within the emirate of Sharjah following heavy rains within the United Arab Emirates, on January 1, 2022.
Authorities in Qatar urged residents to stay vigilant and forecast “stormy rains” and powerful winds in a number of components of the nation from Sunday.
In Kuwait, “typically common depth” rain was anticipated via Sunday night, the official KUNA information company reported meteorological authorities as saying.
School courses and exams throughout the nation can be suspended on Monday as a result of climate, it added.
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